I see what you did there.

A million sales in a week are great. I don't like these newfangled animesque SE games, but they're doing fine. A decline in popularity is not a failure. You might as well cal Pokemon Black/White a flop.

The OP is rather delusional; FFXIII-2 on the X360 will have no problem clearing 500k.

Ill agree with you there Vesperia is awesome and deserved more praise great anti hero as well. 

Definitely. I never really understood all of the antagonists, but they were still pretty good characters.

Namco need to localise it on the PS3, a PS Vita release would be a great idea too.

This is one of the few times where I would actually endorse a complete reboot of the series.

Bombed is overdoing it, but it's not selling as well as Final Fantasy 13 did.

So, in percentages, Final Fantasy XIII-2 is at 44% of XIII in Japan, at 71% in USA, and at 60% in Europe.

Let's say this percentage sticks in each area. That's rather likely. There's no reason FFXIII-2 should have worse legs compared to its launch than FFXIII did. In fact, it's more probable that it'll do better compared to the launch than FFXIII did. That would put the total sales in each region at

Japan: 822,000
Americas:  1,803,000
Europe: 924,000
Rest of the world:  ~500,000

Worldwide: Just over 4 million.

That would be the lowest since the series went over to Playstation, at roughly a million less than X-2 and IX. However, the entirity of that drop has happened in Japan. In other word, it's not a franchise dying, it's a franchise not performing too well in Japan, while staying roughly constant in the rest of the world.

Which is roughly identical to what is happening with another series, namely The Legend of Zelda. The first title in the 7th gen reached top-of-the-line sales, but the second outing didn't, and only saw average sales for the series in the west, and lower in Japan. Now, is Zelda a dying franchise? Not at all.

I'm not sure if that analogy helps, but the point is that Final Fantasy is solely experiencing a gradual decline in Japan, and staying roughy constant in the west. That's hardly bombing.

Anyway, I don't know if we should take the OP seriously, after all I think he was the guy saying that The Last Story could hit 1M in Japan alone haha.

thats a low blow man

This is actully a bad thing.

think about it. Mass Effect 1 sold i dunno 2.5 mil copies. Mass Effect 2 sold 3 mil, not including digital sales. so based on that alone we know the sequel was so well recived it sold more than its predecessor.

FF13-2 has sold less in its first week than FF13. FF13-2 will sell a lot less than FF13. there is no chance it will come close to 6.5 mil. now this is a problem because it means of all those people who bought FF13, not all of them came back.

the point is games like Fable 3, Skyrim and Mass Effect 2 (soon 3) are so well recieved they are significantly increasing their number  of sales and thus fans. FF adversly is not inceasing in fans, if we look at first week FF13 to FF13-2 sales there has been a significant decrease in the interest of the title.

besides, FF13-2 will not sell more copies than Mass Effect 2. which is partly a disaster because out of 6.5 mil sales, FF13-2 will sell less that the original. from ME1's 2.5 mil sales, Biowares sequel will sell more than a sequel to a game that sold 6.5 mil copies. which developer has been more successful? the one that has decreased its fans, or the one that has increase it?

besides saying FF13-2 has ONLY been beaten by Skyrim is an understatement. the game has sold 10 mil fucking copies. thats going to be more than the sales of FF13 and FF13-2 combined. and it has only recently come out.

and FF13 is a significant drop FF10 and FF7 before it. the next FF will be comparable to FF12 and FF9 before that.

on that note i dont think FF13-2s are bad. but its semi-annoying having Sqaure Enix spin doctors always trying to defend FF13 with franchises that have only been recently established.